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COVER STORY
ROTARYDOWNUNDER.ORG | 47 |
ABOVE: Doug
Archbold
LEFT: Grant
McFadden
impacts of severe drought coupled
with falling dairy prices. Other trusts
have had to also deal with the impact
of earthquakes and weather-related
events.
Thirty years later, Grant is still heavily
involved with The North Canterbury
Rural Support Trust. Doug retires as
chair in May 2018.
Doug was awarded the Queens
Service Medal QSM in the Queen’s
Birthday Honours in 2014 for his
services to farming and both he and
Grant were recognised with Paul Harris
Fellowships by the Rotary Club of
Papanui in 2017.
counsellors could do was help ease the
farming families off the land. During
those times, 1000 farming families
walked off the farms.
The huge 1992 Canterbury snow
storm was a big test for the trust as
it sought to support farmers and
communities, who were without
electricity for three weeks. There was
national interest in what was happening
in Canterbury, and in the early 2000s
government moved to replicate the
Canterbury model nationally. Fourteen
rural support trusts were set up.
Government also moved to codify the
definition of adverse events at three
levels and set out criteria for tax relief
and government assistance. Papanui
Rotarian Doug Archbold, a retired
farmer, joined the support trust in 2001
and has been its chairman for the past
eight years. Doug describes the work
as hugely rewarding, especially when
you have helped prevent another
farmer suicide. It is, nevertheless, very
time consuming.
He describes the support and advice
as economic, climatic and personal.
The trusts often have experts either
on the board or in the networks, who
are their eyes and ears on the ground,
but they do not hesitate to refer cases
where they feel professional help
is required.
In more recent times, many of the
trusts have been dealing with the